Dominic Rohner

Professor - Geneva Graduate Institute

Dominic Rohner (PhD, University of Cambridge) is a Professor of Economics at the Geneva Graduate Institute, where he holds the André Hoffmann Chair in Political Economics and Governance, and is also a Professor at the University of Lausanne (on leave). He is Co-director of the Hoffmann Centre for Global Sustainability, member of the Swiss National Research Council, academic director of the FCDO-funded research program on Reducing Conflict and Improving Performance in the Economy (ReCIPE) and leader of the CEPR Research and Policy Network on “Preventing Conflict”.

Rohner is also an Associate Editor of the Economic Journal and a Fellow of several leading research institutions, including Fellow of the Royal Economic Society (FREcon). His research studies topics in development economics and political economics, among others the causes and consequences of armed conflict. It has been published in the most renowned academic journals in economics, including the American Economic Review, Econometrica, Journal of Political Economy, Quarterly Journal of Economics and Review of Economic Studies and has won several awards. His first single-authored book “The Peace Formula: Voice, Work and Warranties” has been published in 2024 by Cambridge University Press. His work has been extensively covered in the media, including in The Economist, The Washington Post, The Guardian, The Times Literary Supplement, BBC, CBS, Euronews, Le Monde, Le Soir, Le Temps, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ), Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ), and Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ), among many others.